Critical Praise

"Susan Faludi's Backlash . . .[is] the most important book on women in recent decades . . . Stiffed is even better than Backlash. It is a significant and serious work. "

——The New York Review of Books

"Faludi masterfully weaves larger essays with case histories and personality profiles. She connects the general to the specific and enlivens her argument with a host of haunted voices. "

——Washington Post Book World

"A feminist and proud of it, Susan Faludi began the remarkable book Stiffed seven years ago . . . But if feminism is Faludi's lens and compass, journalism is her splendid trade. She listens like a tuning fork, and picks up unseen vibrations . . . Faludi has talked to hundreds of men. They either don't know or don't care that she's a famous feminist. They need to talk to a woman . . . Her ear knows how to listen; her heart is made of sympathy; her mind is always changing; she wants to change their world. They've been cheated--of heroic roles, meaningful work, job security, wifely adoration, mastery of the universe, self-respect and the big score. Somehow somwhere a promise was made and then betrayed. By whom? . . . There isn't a subject she touches on--from the space program to Tailhook to Rodney King to Si Newhouse--that she doesn't illuminate in prose as graceful as a gazelle, with statistics that startle us into sentinence. There isn't an Angry White Male she encounters who won't be heard out respectfully almost groomed for nuance and clues. And there's not a jot of jargon in the whole brilliant book . . . "

——John Leonard, New York Newsday